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Deal trims maximum jobless benefits to 73 weeks

Unemployed workers would no longer be able to claim 99 weeks of benefit checks by this summer under a deal being worked out in Congress.

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President Barack Obama's big-money day in S.F.

President Obama wrapped up a day of California fundraisers Thursday with a speech at the Nob Hill Masonic Center on elevating the middle class, as hundreds of demonstrators -- from the Tea Party to Occupy -- railed outside against his policies on the economy, the environment and contraception. Joe Garofoli

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Bay Area & State

Romney takes on world as he vies for presidency

The world according Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney: Europeans are socialists. The Chinese are currency manipulators. Russia can't be trusted to abide by nuclear agreements. The Palestinians are out to destroy Israel. And the U.S. is too generous with humanitarian aid.

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Politics

PG&E expects San Bruno fines to hit $200 million

PG&E Corp. expects to pay at least $200 million in fines tied to the deadly 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion, company executives said Thursday. David R. Baker

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Business

Apps need to stop stealing contacts from phones

The Federal Trade Commission issued a report Thursday warning that smart-phone apps can invade children's privacy, easily capturing their location, phone number, contacts, call logs and more. Then again, the tech headlines of the last week have warned that the same is true of pretty much everyone. James Temple

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Technology

`Vatileaks' casts cloud over new cardinal ceremony

A scandal over leaked Vatican documents and reports of political infighting, financial mismanagement and administrative chaos in its frescoed halls have cast a cloud over this weekend's ceremony to create 22 new cardinals.

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World

Speed Freak search tries to pinpoint new well

Investigators said Thursday they are trying to pinpoint the location of a second abandoned well in San Joaquin County where one of the convicted Speed Freak Killers says murder victims were dumped. Kevin Fagan

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Crime

Deputy: Alleged cat eater had carcass in kitchen

It was the sound of a wailing cat that first caught the neighbor's attention. When she looked toward the sound she told Kern County authorities that she saw her next-door neighbor cutting off the crying feline's head with a knife.

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